Re: [GENERAL] count (*)

2007-09-17 Thread Albe Laurenz
alonso wrote: > I've got it, but I don't know the reason of it. > In the database table the records have duplicated and I've > two rows for > every primary key - with different OIDs. > Very strange however... Very strange indeed. Are you positive that there is a primary key constraint on the col

[GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Josh Harrison
Hi, I noticed that I have too many records in my pg_ catalog files with the same name. For example if I give this query, which checks for the triggers that do not have corresponding tables in the pg_class select * from pg_trigger where tgrelid not in (select relfilenode from pg_class), I get set

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if I give this query, which checks for the triggers that do not have > corresponding tables in the pg_class > select * from pg_trigger where tgrelid not in (select relfilenode from > pg_class), This query is wrong --- relfilenode is not a join column

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Josh Harrison
Thanks Tom. I tried it using pg_class.oid and I still have some records which r not in the pg_class files. What can I do about that? (BTW what does relfilenode in pg_class stands for?) Thanks again Josh On 9/17/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Josh Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Josh Harrison wrote: On 9/17/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Josh Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if I give this query, which checks for the triggers that do not have > corresponding tables in the pg_class > select * from pg_trigger where tgreli

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Josh Harrison
Thanks Eric, ll try to explain as much as possible When i try to give this query UPDATE payment SET desc='New description' WHERE payment_id='xyz' I got the error ERROR: could not open relation with OID 672178 This error was consistent for this query and it yielded the same OID every time. When

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes...there is a relation in pg_class with the name 'payment' but its oid is > not 672178. So why is it giving me "could not open relation with OID 672178" > when i try an update statement ? Well, are there any other relations that the UPDATE might nee

[GENERAL] creation of tables with warnings

2007-09-17 Thread SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH
Hi Sometimes when I create a table with the CREATE TABLE sql command, it creates a table but with some warnings For example, I create this table in Aqua studio as create table foo(col1 varchar2); gives Warnings: ---> W (1): <--- 0 record(s) affected The table is created. So

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 17, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Josh Harrison wrote: On 9/17/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Josh Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When i try to give this query > UPDATE payment > SET desc='New description' > WHERE payment_id='xyz' > I got the error > ERROR: could not open rel

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Erik Jones
On Sep 17, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Josh Harrison wrote: Thanks. Actually Im currently testing "oracle to postgres migration" with a small dataset. I haven't started working with the real dataset. I wanted to check with a small dataset before I start with the big one. I know the records that I del

Re: [GENERAL] creation of tables with warnings

2007-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/17/07, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry about that. I copied it.This is proper one > create table foo(col1 varchar); > > i use aqua studio Can you copy the error too? Or is it in some kind of popup that makes it hard to do? It just seems odd that you get a warning with

Re: [GENERAL] creation of tables with warnings

2007-09-17 Thread SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH
sorry about that. I copied it.This is proper one create table foo(col1 varchar); i use aqua studio Thanks Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/17/07, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: > Hi > Sometimes when I create a table with the > CREATE TABLE sql command, > it creates a table but with som

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Josh Harrison
Hi, Yes...there is a relation in pg_class with the name 'payment' but its oid is not 672178. So why is it giving me "could not open relation with OID 672178" when i try an update statement ? I use version 8.2. I think the problem started when i manually deleted some rows from the pg_class catalog f

Re: [GENERAL] New/Custom DataType - Altering definition / seeing definition in pgAdmin3

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Spier
Ow Mun Heng escreveu: I've created a new custom datatype eg: create type foo as ( id smallint data1 int data2 int ) to view the datatype in psql I do => \d foo what is the equilvalent on pgadmin3 or any other SQL query tool? Within pgAdmin3: File > Option > Display tab > set Types As

[GENERAL] Tsearch2 - spanish

2007-09-17 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
Hi I had installed postgresql-8.2.4 and tsearch2 with dictionary spanish. My problem is: prueba=# select to_tsvector('espanol','melón'); ERROR: Affix parse error at 506 line And if execute: prueba=# select lexize('sp','melón'); lexize -

Re: [GENERAL] creation of tables with warnings

2007-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/17/07, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Sometimes when I create a table with the > CREATE TABLE sql command, > it creates a table but with some warnings > > For example, I create this table in Aqua studio as > create table foo(col1 varchar2); > > gives > > Warnings: ---> >

Re: [GENERAL] strange TIME behaviour

2007-09-17 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 15/09/2007 14:53, rihad wrote: I'm still unsure if the timezone issue is at all important when comparing timestamps (greater/less/etc), or when adding intervals to preset dates? Do you have situations where the interval you're dealing with spans a change between winter & summer time? Ray

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Josh Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When i try to give this query > UPDATE payment > SET desc='New description' > WHERE payment_id='xyz' > I got the error > ERROR: could not open relation with OID 672178 Hmm, there apparently *is* a pg_class row for relation 'payment', else you'd not g

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference Fall 07, all speaker slots filled!

2007-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I wanted to drop a line and let everyone know that the current list of speakers has been finalized for the conference. The list and their talks can be found here: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ A general synopsis of each talk will be up

Re: [GENERAL] processing urls with tsearch2

2007-09-17 Thread Laimonas Simutis
Thanks for the advice, for right now I went with the second option of preprocessing the text before passing it to the to_tsquery. However I would like to see what it would take to get some of the dictionaries available out there to be hooked into the postgres on windows. Does anyone have any point

Re: [GENERAL] postgres catalog files problem

2007-09-17 Thread Josh Harrison
Thanks. Actually Im currently testing "oracle to postgres migration" with a small dataset. I haven't started working with the real dataset. I wanted to check with a small dataset before I start with the big one. I know the records that I deleted from the pg_class file. so what do i do next? Will it

Re: [GENERAL] New/Custom DataType - Altering definition / seeing definition in pgAdmin3

2007-09-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 17:28 -0300, Roberto Spier wrote: > Ow Mun Heng escreveu: > > I've created a new custom datatype > > to view the datatype in psql I do > > => \d foo > > > > what is the equilvalent on pgadmin3 or any other SQL query tool? > > > > > Within pgAdmin3: File > Option > Display t

[GENERAL] Q:Aggregrating Weekly Production Data. How do you do it?

2007-09-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just wondering how everyone is doing aggregration of production data. Data which runs in the vicinity of a few million a week. What are the methods which will effectively provide the min/max/average/count/stdev of the weekly sample size based on different products/software mix etc. and still be

[GENERAL] For index bloat: VACUUM ANALYZE vs REINDEX/CLUSTER

2007-09-17 Thread Phoenix Kiula
The manual is vague. Several threads about this, in language that is ambiguous to me. So a YES/NO question: Q: To get rid of index bloat, is a VACUUM ANALYZE enough? Or must I reindex/cluster indexes? Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have y

Re: [GENERAL] For index bloat: VACUUM ANALYZE vs REINDEX/CLUSTER

2007-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phoenix Kiula wrote: > The manual is vague. Several threads about this, in language that is > ambiguous to me. > > So a YES/NO question: > > Q: To get rid of index bloat, is a VACUUM ANALYZE enough? Or must I > reindex/cluster indexes? If you overru

Re: [GENERAL] For index bloat: VACUUM ANALYZE vs REINDEX/CLUSTER

2007-09-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:14 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Phoenix Kiula wrote: > > So a YES/NO question: > > > > Q: To get rid of index bloat, is a VACUUM ANALYZE enough? Or must I > > reindex/cluster indexes? > > If you overrun your max_fsm_pages, no: > else yes; Maybe my english suck, but

Re: [GENERAL] For index bloat: VACUUM ANALYZE vs REINDEX/CLUSTER

2007-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:14 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Phoenix Kiula wrote: >>> So a YES/NO question: >>> >>> Q: To get rid of index bloat, is a VACUUM ANALYZE enough? Or must I >>> reindex/cluster indexes? >> If you overrun

[GENERAL] CPU spike when doing PARSE (what is this?)

2007-09-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just a short background. using Perl-DBI to pull data from mssql into PG and \copy into a temp table where the following is done. my $query1 = "DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE $unique_id in (SELECT $unique_id from $table_name_loading)"; my $query2 = "INSERT INTO $table_n

Re: [GENERAL] help w/ SRF function

2007-09-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:21 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to use a SRF to return multi rows. > > > > current SRF is pretty static. > > > > create type foo_type as ( > > id smallint > > data1 int > > data2 int > > ) > > >

[GENERAL] pgcrypto: is an IV needed with pgp_sym_encrypt()?

2007-09-17 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm just starting with pgcrypto, and I'm curious if it's needed/recommended to use an initialization vector/value (IV) with the pgp_sym_encrypt() function. The docs hint that an IV is used automatically, but encrypting plain text that starts the same seems to result in initial common cipher text.

[GENERAL] keeping 3 tables in sync w/ each other

2007-09-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I have 3 tables foo foo_loading_source1 foo_loading_source2 which is something like create table foo (a int, b int, c int) create table foo_loading_source1 (a int, b int, c int) create table foo_loading_source2 (a int, b int, c int) Is there a way which can be made easier to keep these 3 t